Toy gun



May 24 1927. 1 v. ARONSON TOY GUN Filed May 3l, 1924 am @www Patente-d May 24, 1927.

LOUIS V. ARONSON, OF

TOY GUN.

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

Application filed May 31, 1924. Serial No. 717,049.

The invention relates to toys, and has as an object the provision of a toy which will simulate a rifleand produce a shower of sparks when discharged.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a toy rifle which may be repeatedly discharged without reloading.

Further objects of the invention will appear from the following description when read in connection with the accompanying` drawings showing an illustrated embodiment of the invention, and in which:

Figure 1 is a central vertical section with the stock broken away;

Fig. 2 is a detail vertical section similar to Figure 1, showing the device readyfor discharge; I

Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are vertical transverse sections on the lines 3 3; 4-4 and 5--5, respectively, of Figure 1; and

Figa G is a plan view of the blank from which the sparking element holder may be formed.

As shown, the device is provided with a stock member 10, notched at 11 for co-action with a sliding. hammer member or loutton 12 and having a slot there-through at 13 for the passage of a trigger 14.

A trigger guard is shown at 15 formed of an U-shaped wire or rod having ends 16-17 projecting into openings in the stock.

A barrel 18, preferably formed of tubular sheet metal is provide-d, and may be formed by bending a flat strip of metal to provide a joint at 19 along the lower side of the barrel. To secure the barrel to the stock,

wings 20, 21 may be provided by detiecting Y portions of the material of the barrel 18 into downwardly extending parallel positions, which receive the fore-hand portion of the stock 10 between them and to which they may be secured by brads 22.

To provide sparks when the device is operated, there is shown a piece of pyrophoric material 23 housed in a cylindrical receptacle 24 mounted upon the barrel adjacent its front end. rllhe receptacle with means for pivoting the pressing lever 25 may be formed from a` blank such as shownin Fig. G, which is doubled upon itselfvpso that the portion 26 may form a tubular receptacle 24, and the part thus produced may be soldered or otherwise secured in a slot in the upper portion of. the barrel. To provide pressure upon the pyrophoric element'23, the lever 25 is shown as pivoted at 27 and as provided /nient 23.

with a downwardly extending hooked finger 29. finger 29. The spring` 28 is-shown as anchored at its remaining end to a pin 30 extending across the interior ofthe sliding trough or member 31 mounted for reciprocation within the barrel 18 and partly on the upper edge of the fore-hand portion of the stock 10. i i

To produce sparks by friction 'against the pyrophoric element a roughened or abradant member, as for instance, a piece of file 32,'is shown as mounted adjacent the front end of the reciprocating trough 31. yThe F trough 31 may be pulled by the hand of the user engaging a hammer member Vor button 12 carried by a rod 33, secure-d at 34 to the rear end of the reciprocating member 31 as by soldering or by means of a pin 35 or both, the walls of the reciprocating member 31 being shown as turned about the portionto enclose the same.

To hold .the reciprocating member in retracted position and to permit of its sudden release by pressure upon the trigger 14, there is shown a notch 36 provided by cutting away the lower side of the wall of the member 31, which notch is adapted to coact with the notch 37 in the trigger 14. The trigger may be pressed upwardly by the coil spring 38 seated in a cavity V39 in the stock and surrounding the projection 40 formed upon the trigger, the trigger being pivoted at 41 upon a pin fastened through the stock at this point. The rod 33 is shown as passing through a bushing 42 in its reciprocating movement. The single spring' 28 may be utilized to pull upon the reciprocating member 31 so as to produce the relative movement between the friction member 32 and the pyrophoric element 23, and to provide pressure upon the lever 25 to press the pyrophoric element 23 against the friction element. |The button 12 is shown as provided with a notch at 43 which takes over the stock 10. The walls of the barrel A coiled spring 28 is anchored to they 18 opposite the location where the sparks by the lever 25to assist in grasping the lever Y tolift the same out ofthe receptacle 24 against the pressure of the spring 28 when it is necessary to renew the -pyrophoric ele- The lever 24 and the sparking element receptacle are utilized to represent the front sight upon tlie barrel.

The operation of the invention will appear from the above description; Minor. changes may be made in tbe physical embodiment of the invention Without depart# v ing` `from its spirit.

tion element mounted upon said reciprocating member, a pyroplioric element slidably mounted in tlie Wall of Said barrel, means for pressi-ng Said-pyroplroric eiement against said frictionv element actuated by Said spring.

2 A toy gun having a barrel, a retractil@ Slidable member Witliin the barrel, a movable member on the barrel, said members having coacting` means to illuminate the muzzlejet tbe barrel through sliding movement ofthe retractile member1r a single means serving dually to normally urge sliding .movement of the retractile member and movement of the Second mentioned member to effect more intimate engagement of tlie said ycoacting means.

LOUS V. ARQNSON. 

